Apparently time doesn’t heal all wounds.
Nearly a year and a half since being traded to the Coyotes, Niklas Hjalmarsson will return to the United Center ice on Thursday playing for the visiting team.
“It’s going to be strange coming in as the away team and being in the other locker room,” said Hjalmarsson on Wednesday. “I bet it’s going to be a lot of emotions and mixed feelings.”
This is also the first time Hjalmarsson has been back to the city of Chicago since he was traded, a city he called his “second home.